New York Daily News

Diddy hit in new sex suit, denies claims

- BY DAVID MATTHEWS

Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of sexual assault in yet another lawsuit.

The federal lawsuit, which was filed Wednesday, names Combs, Harve Pierre — the former president of Combs’ company Bad Boy Entertainm­ent — and another individual referred to as the “Third Assailant” as defendants.

The plaintiff, who is dubbed Jane Doe in the suit, alleges she was sex-trafficked and gang raped by Combs, Pierre and the Third Assailant when she was a 17-year-old junior in high school.

According to the suit, Pierre approached the girl at a lounge in Michigan and told her he was “best friends” with Combs (photo) before calling him.

From there, Combs and Pierre convinced the girl to take a private jet with Pierre and the Third Assailant to Combs’ recording studio in New York City.

The three then plied her with drugs and alcohol before raping her, the suit alleges. Pierre allegedly forced the girl to give him oral sex and she fell into the fetal position and lay on the floor when the assault was over.

Pierre and Bad Boy Entertainm­ent were named in a separate lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court last month.

Combs was accused of rape, sex traffickin­g and years of abuse by his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a lawsuit in mid-November, which was settled just one day later. He was also accused of drugging and raping Joie Dickerson-Neal in a separate lawsuit filed before the expiration of the Adult Survivors Act, which suspended New York’s statute of limitation­s for one year to allow sex crime victims to sue their alleged abusers regardless of when the abuse occurred.

Combs responded to Jane Doe’s complaint with a statement Wednesday.

“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH,” he said. “For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinat­e my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy. Sickening allegation­s have been made against me by individual­s looking for a quick payday.”

“Let me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged,” he continued. “I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth.”

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